Manager Charged In Rape

FORT LAUDERDALE — The manager of a motel near the beach has been charged with raping a 14- year-old boy who had been staying at the motel with his parents, police said Thursday.

Joseph Gulla, 57, manager of the Princess Ann Motel, 2901 Belmar, was charged late Wednesday with two counts of sexual battery and two counts of indecent assault after police said he invited the boy into his home at the motel and sexually assaulted him twice.